Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:05:21 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: R: aclocal problem
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:44:58PM +0000, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>--- Mer 10/2/10, Corinna Vinschen ha scritto:
>
>> On Feb? 9 19:59, Marco Atzeri
>> wrote:
>> > --- Mar 9/2/10, Marco Atzeri ha scritto:
>> > 
>> > > Hi, 
>> > > working on the last octave development source,
>> > > recently I bumped on:
>> > > 
>> > > $ aclocal --force -I m4
>> > > unknown channel obsolete. at
>> > > /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Channels.pm line
>> 632
>> > > ? ? ? ?
>> > > Autom4te::Channels::msg('obsolete.',
>> 'configure.ac:262',
>> > > 'warning: The macro `AC_GNU_SOURCE\' is
>> obsolete.\x{a}You
>> > > should r...') called at /usr/bin/autom4te-2.65
>> line 1039
>> > > aclocal-1.11: autom4te failed with exit status:
>> 1
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > Have anyone the same problem with other packages
>> ?
>> > > It seems more a aclocal fault than a octave
>> specific
>> > > issue.
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > Regards
>> > > Marco
>> > > 
>> > 
>> > I just discovered that the problem happens with
>> > cygwin snapshot 2010-02-07 but not with 1.7.1.
>> > 
>> > Any idea what could cause it ?
>> 
>> No, but it might help to isolate the cause if you verify
>> with which
>> snapshot the problem actually started.
>
>2010-02-05 is the first to show such problem.
>2010-02-04 works as expected

That would point to a newlib change since the only cygwin change
is very trivial.

>snapshot 2010-02-10 seems to have a problem with perl.
>
>perl 3192 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: In cygwin_except_handler  
>so aclocal can not work at all.

That one is my fault.  I have a vague understanding of what is causing
the problem but I probably won't be able to fix it tonight.  I should
have it fixed tomorrow, however.

cgf

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